Talk:Carter G. Woodson
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Carter G. Woodson was born in poverty in New Canton, Virginia. He had a very poor childhood and a poor family. His parents were former slaves Anne Eliza Riddle and James Henry Woodson. They pushed Carter into working at an early age. He was not able to go to school during its five-month term because helping in the farm was more important and valuable back then, and because his parents could not afford it even if they wanted to. Carter learned most of the regular school subjects at home. Then at the age of seventeen, he and his brother, Robert, set off to Douglass High School in West Virginia. But unfortunately they were forced to earn their living in the coal mines of Kentucky. Although this was a slow way to gain money, Carter was patient and determined for his education. Finally, at the age of 20, Carter was able to attend high school. Having his knowledge of his past studies at home and from his family, Carter finished high school in less than to years. At the age of 22, he graduated with a diploma.
[edit] ISBN
I have added the ISBN number for this article. Kilo-Lima|(talk) 12:36, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dispute Founders
The African American Registry has an article on Jesse E. Moorland which indicates that Moorland was a co-founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History with Carter G. Woodson. This article list 4 additional founders, however; Moorland is not mentioned, nor are there references which site these 4 other founders.
Born to former slaves in 1875 as the first of their nine children, Woodson spent his youth laboring on his family's Virginia farm and getting a primary education before working on the railroads and in the coal mines of West Virginia. He was 20 years old before he saw the inside of a high school. He swiftly made up for lost time, and never again in his long life was he unencumbered by the drive to study or teach.
After finishing four years of schoolwork in two, Woodson enrolled in Berea College, in Kentucky. Abolitionists had established the college in 1855, intending it to have a student body more or less equally white and black. The notion would have been novel in the North. In a border state where slavery remained in force, the idea was heretical.
Woodson graduated from Berea in 1903. His timing was impeccable: One year later, Kentucky passed legislation outlawing multiracial education even in private schools.
